More faith
Si: I am sorry to be so long in doing the Reid Mr Campbell (Letters, 4 February) the cosiness of a reply_
As he says, Si Faith is recorded as a martyr at .Agen by Si Jerome, bin the Oxford Dictionary of Saints says that her legend is compleieh unhistorical, and she has become confused with the allegorical figures Faith. Hope and Charity, and with their mother Sophia
In view of this, and of such dedications as St Cross and Si Sepulchre, whom
n obody has claimed as people, 1 am iced to think that there was a &Niko, Stec aw Fan at Agen, whidr„ though originally meaning "Churdh of the Holy Faith', could also mean 'Church of St Faith', which mime had become assimilated to the probably quite genuine tradition of an paw female martyr (whose name, him that of the priest St Alban. who was later koown as St Amphibol us which is in faint a type of cloak, had perhaps been forgetter* It is obviously a topic on which much more could be said Colin Brown 30 Woodbridge close, taagetwe, Look Bads,
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